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Use Your Words! / Writers Speak is a locally produced literary discussion and interview program on Gila / Mimbres Community Radio and KURU / 89.1 FM hosted by none other than the 2nd Poet Laureate of Silver City, New Mexico, Elise Stuart, and WNMU writer in residence and award winning author, JJ Amaworo Wilson.
Elise and her team of local literati share in the production, technical and creative aspects of the show which includes, of course, the local lights in the world of creative writing and poetry – and there are more than a few – as well as names and talents beyond Southwest New Mexico.
Use Your Words currently airs live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of each month at 4:30pm. Recordings of each program are posted on the GMCR website shortly thereafter to enjoy at your convenience. If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show, Elise can be contacted at UseYourWords@GMCR.org.
This week on Use Your Words! JJ Amaworo Wilson interviews William (Bill) Charland about his novel - Tenuous State: A Tale of Survival in the West. Charland is a professor emeritus at WNMU and a veteran journalist. His new book is about an idealistic college professor bravely attempting to save a dysfunctional university. Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm […]
Elise Stuart and Tom Hester interview Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, a prolific author of children's books. Her latest book, Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington was starred in School Library Journal and selected as a best book for 2017 by the Chicago Public Library. Vaunda’s young adult book, No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller, honors […]
This week on Use Your Words! host Elise Stuart speaks with author/educator Catalina Clausen on her new novel. Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm and rebroadcast the following Fridays at the same time. Or listen to this installment at your convenience via this link... Use Your Words! / Catalina Clausen If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like […]
This week on Use Your Words!, Elise Stuart and Tom Hester interview Dr Lydia Huerta, Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Latino Studies and Women and Gender Studies at WNMU. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Gender Equity and Social Justice, located on the margins of the WNMU campus. Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays […]
This week on Use Your Words, Elise Stuart interviews Mark Fleisher, author of three poetry collections... Moments in Time Intersections: Poems from the Crossroads Reflections: Soundings from the Deep Obituaries of the Living is a collaborative chapbook created with friend and colleague Dante Barry His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, in print and online. The Albuquerque resident earned a journalism degree from Ohio University and served in Vietnam with […]
This week's on Use Your Words!, Elise Stuart interviews poet and publisher, Stewart Warren. Stewart Warren hit the road early to engage a life of trouble making, exploration and ceremony. Earlier in his life Stewart traveled through North America, catching rides at truck stops, small plane terminals and along farm to market roads while working his way through a variety of cultures and landscapes from Haight Ashbury to Cuernavaca. In […]
For this week's installment of Use Your Words!, Elise Stuart interviews John Ashbaugh: writer, visual artist, teacher, and student of life. John studied and earned several degrees along the way and also traveled to India, Nepal, southeast Asia, and Guatemala. He assembled a collection of full color illustrations and poetry in EarthTribe Gather, Outline for a New Mythology, inspired by his viewing and understanding of the ancient Aztec calendar. His […]
On this week's edition of Use Your Words host Elise Stuart and JJ Amaworo Wilson interview writer and performance artist, Tim Z Hernandez whose latest published work is, All They Will Call You, from University of Arizona Press. The book details the contentious process of identifying the victims and resolving unfinished business of the 1948 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos canyon in which 28 immigrant farm workers from Mexico perished […]
This week on JJ Amaworo Wilson speaks with novelist Mary Sojourner on her work both as an author and as a teacher of the craft and art of writing. Mary Sojourner is the author of three novels, Sisters of the Dream (1989); Going Through Ghosts and 29, 2014; two short story collections, Delicate, 2001 and The Talker, 2017; essay collection, Bonelight: ruin and grace in the New Southwest; memoir, Solace: […]